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30 Cards in this Set
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Is himself, and can call himself me and his possessions mine. |
Man |
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Is always another's. Exists not as an end in itself but as a means. |
Thing |
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Can choose between courses of action,he alone can say no in the face of the greatest temptation or adversity. |
Man |
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"For the sake of the untouchable touch, I will not touch thee." |
Ghandi |
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Man enjoys a certain autonomy, he is an autocentric being as distinguished from a thing which is heterocentric. |
Human liberty |
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Are correlative and are both governed by the principle of justice. |
Liberty and duty |
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Is the freedom to do what one can and pleases to do. |
License |
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Is the freedom to do what one ought. |
Liberty |
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The Democratic concept of freedom means freedom to do what is allowed by law, freedom to do what is right. |
Moral freedom |
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This Democratic principle is justified on theoretical grounds by means of the moral and Christian principle which teaches that each individual; regardless of social or financial status, and other distinctions, is a person. |
Equality of all men |
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All men come from God and will go back to Him. |
Christian point of view |
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Is never absolute, it has limits. |
Human freedom |
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A common nature and a common destiny, all are one - members of the same community. This is the philosophy behind brotherhood which finds expression in such democratic ideas as our country, our ideas, our children's children, etc. |
Confraternity |
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Representative character of democracy. |
Authority and law |
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This a basic tenet of democracy as of any good government. |
Moral power of law |
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The rulers in effect govern not by right but by force. It does not explain authority on the part of the rulers, since the individual "obeys only himself" |
Rousseauian theory |
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Solits power. Without power, it is dead. |
Authority |
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"Each individual person is related to the entire community as the part of the whole" |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
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Overstresses the importance of the state; which absorbs all individuality. |
State absolutism |
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Overemphasizes the reality of the individual; which reduces the state into a mere tool or instrument of and for men. |
Anarchistic individualism |
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Postulate of God's existence, invoked in the preamble of our Constitution, which rules and guides the destinies of nations. Emphasizes: democracy is primarily based on the doctrines of rights, duties and the common good |
Divine Providence |
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Is not intrinsically wrong; for it does not involve any violation of human right. |
Death penalty |
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God endowed all things with such natural appetences as to tend always to the natural object and direction of their movements. Directs or leads all things to their natural ends. |
Eternal law |
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God leads man to his supreme goal (happiness) in accordance with his free nature by this. |
Love |
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Implies liberty because by definition; implies obligation, because it is only human beings, rational and free, that can be obliged or commanded. |
Moral law |
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We have to give to each one his due; we have to respect each other's right. |
Principle of justice |
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Stated here: "law perfects liberty" |
Splendor Veritatis (splendor of truth) by John Paul ll |
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Restricts, diminishes and even destroys liberty. |
Law |
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The philosopher of the Philippine revolution |
Apolinario Mabini |
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By leading a good upright life, by constantly conforming his actions with the moral law, he can attain his greatest perfection. Man shares in the infinite perfection of God. |
Union with the All perfect being |
